Myelin Formation
Myelin Formation
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 23rd August 2004
- Speaker: Stefan Egelhaaf (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
After contact with water, lipid lamellar phases can show spectacularinstabilities: multi-bilayer tubules, so-called myelins, grow from thelamellar/water interface into the water. I will try to summarize severalstudies which were performed in our group over the last few years andwhich aimed at a quantitative investigation of the growth of myelins aswell as changes in the lamellar phase using, among others, opticalmicroscopy, direct observation and time- and space-resolved small-anglex-ray scattering. These experiments provide detailed quantitativeinformation on the dynamics of myelin growth, the influx of water as wellas the swelling and textural changes of the lamellar phase. But do theseresults also fit together?
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